SwitchDiscs (beta)

Free trades. No late fees. Supports games and CDs in addition to movies. Potentially good supplement to online rental services. You can trade for the packages and artwork, too, not just the discs.

Cons
Non-automated trading system. Sparse selection so far. No prepared packaging. Clunky interface. Lacks help pages for new users. Users must set their own values for trades.

Bottom Line

SwitchDiscs is a grassroots trading service that lets you exchange your movies, games, and CDs with other enthusiasts. It's a great idea, but there's precious little available in the system, which is still on the clunky side.

Media exerts a strange power that causes you to collect it until one day you're looking over all those dusty titles and thinking, "You know, I should have just rented that one. And that one. And ..." SwitchDiscs can't undo the past, but it can unlock value from your excess media.

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The SwitchDiscs system lets you trade DVDs, CDs, and games. You begin by building two lists: a "My Discs" list of media you'd like to trade away, and a "Wishlist" for things you want. As you add items to the SwitchDiscs system, they become available to others. When someone requests an item you have, you mail it to the person, and for that you get SwitchBucscredits you can use to get something you want from other users in the system.

As with the competing Peerflix movie-trading service, the beauty of SwitchDiscs is that you're trading with the entire pool of SwitchDiscs usersyou're not trading one-to-one. The person who requests your Raging Bull DVD might not have anything you want. But chances are that someone using the service has a movie you haven't seen yet. You accrue SwitchBucs by sending out discs and can spend them by requesting discs you want. Unlike Peerflix's trades, which cost 99 cents each, SwitchDiscs exchanges are free. You pay postage and packaging costs with both.Continue reading

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